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+ Ed Weeks and Mindy Kaling have teamed up to write a comedy about a lesbian couple in Kansas: “The untitled single-camera comedy centers on liberal lesbian couple Laurel and Marisa who move with their teenage son to Laurel’s conservative hometown in Kansas to find that their assumptions about Middle America might just be wrong.” If they don’t title it “Surrender Dorothy” then I’m gonna through a fit in the candy aisle.

Before this show, I had a lot of insecurity,” DeGeneres says. “I wasn’t sure if I was going to work again, and although I was out, I was still trying to alter myself — not dressing the way I wanted to dress or wearing my hair the way I wanted to. I slowly gained the confidence to be authentic, and what I’ve learned about other people is that they strive to be authentic, too. So whether they fully support me, love my lifestyle, or love that I’m married to a woman, I think they like that authenticity, and they’re drawn to it.”

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Haha. I’m glad I don’t live in the public eye. I’m like a chameleon when it comes to forming sounds. And I do have a facility for languages, but I can’t “affect” an accent on purpose for the life of me like my mom or a couple siblings can. I have a friend who worked at a grocery store in high school, and to amuse herself she’d sometimes adopt an accent for a day (usually upper-crust English or Southern US).

After working in northern Louisiana for a month I spoke with a noticeable southern accent (it faded within a day when I returned to Washington State). Or I once spent just like three hours hanging out with a friend who had lived in Scotland for a year and pronounced many of her vowels non-American, even though she’d been back in the US for a month. It was a weird mix of sounds. And by the end of the evening I was tripping over my words because part of my brain and mouth kept trying to skew my vowels the same way, and the other part of my brain kept thinking the equivalent of “WTF! How do you speech?”

I did watch the other video, and I felt like there wasn’t much difference. I mean, she was speaking much more quietly (in the one I watched), and at a different cadence. I liken it in my mind to when people sing: sometimes I can tell they have an “accent” (compared to my native accent), and sometimes I can’t. I just didn’t see anything in the video to say she was totally different like everyone said??? I’m not trying to be argumentative or contrary. This is fascinating!

Anna Kendrick is at the top of my list of girls I’m always going to be confused about: do I want to be her? Do I want to be with her? Or do I want to be her bff and just chill in our hoodies all day long getting high and ordering a ton of take out food? Guess I’ll never know.

Okay, so I wasn’t the only one who thought Pitch Perfect 2 was a Pitch Perfect piece of shit. And they’re making a 3, the term “just because you can doesn’t mean you should” springs to mind for just this occasion.

If Mindy’s show doesn’t take off, I doubt it will have to do with the premise and more that Mindy and Co. are only funny in small spurts.

And excuse me Dear Autostraddle but where is the Black Mirror-San Junipero that was promised weeks ago? I can only assume that all the writers are fighting over recapping it because it was such a wonderful and complex story but I am ready to spill my own guts on it.

It’s going to be in next week’s boobs on your tube. Heather mentioned it right at the top of this week’s, saying they’re still putting it together beecause they’re trying to make sure that people from the intersecting identities get to talk about a show that represents them.